I just realised my previous post fell under "Sunday". It was supposed to be about yesterday. Probably because I uploaded it past midnight. I ended up sleeping at 1am, which is rather unhealthy. I have to work my way towards 10.30pm, then hopefully, 10pm. Prelims are coming soon, 2 September (doesn't this just look like a cinema ad?).

Today was another great day. Sometimes, I find myself measuring the quality of the day by how much I have accomplished. That means, today was good because I learnt a lot.

After Sunday school my family and I rushed off to the Bukit Arang church so that dad could arrive just in time for the service. We were there more like to give moral support and provide constructive feedback on his sermon. I never fail to panic for dad because of his Chinese. My Chinese isn't that fantastic either, but still, I hope he finds the right word. Jean and mom, on the other hand, are linguistically inclined. It's known as a Gene Package (I'm kidding; I don't do bio). I took on most of dad's genes, but they also came along with malfunctioning Chinese genes. Jean took too many language/humanity genes from mom and that aptly explains her math.

While on the way home, I heard Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the radio! I think Jean got infected by my liking for that piece. We had to get out of the car soon, so she quickly plugged her earphones into the handphone and tuned in to 92.4. I shared her earpiece so that I could get as much of the music as possible. We had to practically hobble all the way to the door, then bend down together to take off our shoes, then get up slowly, the open the door etc etc. Just a slight miscalculation and either party's earpiece would get yanked out. It was just when we painstakenly stepped into the house that it suddenly occured to Jean that she could have turned on her speakers. Going to such great lengths just to appreciate Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Mozart's 12 variatons. By the time she got her speakers on, I had already blasted the house with TTLS using the sound system. That was nice.

I spent the afternoon working, all the way till just now. Mostly on music. There's this sentence in the notes on Haydn Studies:

Haydn started giving piano lessons to Rebecca Shroeter, attractive and well-to-do widow of the composer and pianist Johann Samuel Schroeter, with whom he had an affair.

It's misleading because whenever I first look at it, I have to remind myself that Haydn is not doing anything weird, and hence he should not have to join the list with Tchaikovsky in it.

On the bright side, I'm more or less complete with prelim coursework. Now I have to learn how to play my piano accompaniment and memorise it.

I'm not going to go about listing whatever work I did today, in case I unintentionally stress anyone out. Just refer to the links on the right if you ever find the need to get an adrenaline rush. I need to get off the com now. I've been on it for 5 hours. My eyes are going to protest soon.